How to Get Away With Murder – It Was the Worst Day of My Life

By: Dustin Bradley

Fans, we are so close to getting the answers we deserve! ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder is all new tonight and to catch you up we are gonna recap and discuss episode “It Was the Worst Day of My Life.”

We open the episode with this week’s big storyline, Nate Sr.’s (Glynn Turman) retrial. And things are going as smoothly as Annalise (Viola Davis) hoped so she gets the clinic together and tries to map out a game plan on what to do next and how the prosecution has blindsided her. First, it will be by putting Nate (Billy Brown) on the stand and questioning him about a letter he wrote at age fourteen about his father’s potential release at that time, which inadvertently lead to all of the events happening now. Next, it is putting a expert witness on the stand that was hired by the prosecution and the Governor in order to sway the jury into believing that Nate Sr. was of sound mind at the time of the murder. All evidence points to a loss, but does Annalise have one last trick up her sleeve?

We then pick back up where we left off with Bonnie (Liza Weil) who is backsliding into a depression hole after hearing the news of her child’s potential to be alive. She’s so lost in this new world because she had finally put her past behind her and was starting to feel a sliver of happiness. She hasn’t been showing up to work which makes both Asher (Matt McGorry) and D.A. Ronald (John Hensley) very concerned. Ronald seems to think that his little H.R. stunt is what caused her to avoid him and he’s so worried that he pops up at her house and tries to get the truth from Frank (Charlie Weber). She doesn’t get a peep out of them until later in the episode when Bonnie finally tells him the truth and the whole truth about her past. Luckily, this doesn’t scare him away like she envisioned, but instead makes him love her more because of how brave she is to have overcome her traumatic past. And after a conversation with Nate, Frank and Ronald she decides it’s finally time to confront the most important person, her sister Julie (Elizabeth Morton).

Back in the classroom it is revealed that the final arguments are coming up in a few hours and they need a final strategy to win. Gabriel (Rome Flynn) offers that they should move for a mistrial because the prosecution lied about Nate Sr.’s drug charges and everyone in the clinic agrees because it is the best strategy at the moment. But Annalise knows that the real way to win is to appeal to the jurors’ hearts and in order to do that she performs probably one of the most powerful moments in this show’s courtroom history and gets in a box the size of what Nate Sr.’s solitary cell would be and stands in silence for minutes in order to show that that type of treatment could drive anyone to snap. lucky for us…THEY WIN! After the win Annalise addresses Connor (Jack Falahee) and tells him that suggesting Gabriel to offer up a mistrial was a very good move, but she had to take a risk to win. Now, because of this win and some snarky words from Annalise, Governor Birkhead (Laura Innes) has to take the fight to Annalise herself and invites her to meet in order to discuss their options.

Elsewhere in the episode, Michaela (Aja Niomi King) and Asher are planning a bachelor party for Connor and Oliver (Conrad Ricamora), but it might not go to plan because the boys’ mothers will be coming for a visit next week. Laurel (Karla Souza) finds out that Frank is spying on Gabriel and wants to know the truth. But will Frank actually be honest with her?

Finally, in the flash forward, the gang is still looking for Oliver at the wedding when Connor runs into his mom and…ASHER hooking up. So, Asher is now officially accounted for so that leaves Oliver, Nate, Ronald, Gabriel and Julie as the potential victims.

Be sure to watch How to Get Away with Murder tonight and every Thursday at 10/9c on ABC!